The Highlands Council is currently developing its Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program to be implemented throughout the seven Highlands Region counties (see the "Overview of TDR Program Development"). This program will serve as one mechanism to provide compensation to property owners in the Preservation Area that have been affected by implementation of the Highlands Act through a TDR credit system.  This system will allocate TDR credits to such property owners, which credits may be sold to developers for their use in appropriate voluntary receiving zones.  Use of TDR credits by developers in the receiving zones that have been established by participating municipalities will permit developers to increase the density of proposed projects in those zones.  Through the TDR program, development potential will be transferred from the most ecologically or agriculturally sensitive lands in the Highlands (sending zones) to those lands within the seven Highlands counties that are best able to accommodate this development potential (receiving zones). Participation as a receiving zone is voluntary.